The gigantic standalone coral is about 600 feet in circumference and has grown uninterrupted for three centuries, according ...

The "mega" coral is 112-feet wide, 105-feet long and 18-feet high, making it larger than a blue whale, the world's largest animal.

Scientists aboard a National Geographic research vessel have uncovered the world’s largest known coral in the southwest ...

It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...

The researchers say what they have found is a coral colony that is made up of nearly a billion tiny creatures that work ...

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Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic ...

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A bumblebee’s brain is smaller than a sesame seed. But it can still accomplish quite a bit.“You don’t need a big brain to learn well,” said Felicity Muth, an assistant professor in the Department of ...

Misconceptions about these marine predators is putting shark populations—and the ocean ecosytem in general—at risk, say ...

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